A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

boyd Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 3.7 4.8 0 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences137 3 0 0 0 3
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of boyd in Corpus

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Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
rete wa. Ye shuid've seen May Boyd, she wis great et it, she dis on page 76

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
Scots for Children, ed. Bette Boyd, NMS Enterprises, Edinburgh, on page 122

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
nson gaes on tae quote Edward Boyd wha in the 1970s remarked:
at the end o the war wis, as Boyd says, a product o the years o
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
the hie public profile o Cat Boyd, nor the personal vote o Jean
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
he day at the inaugural Betty Boyd Memorial Scots Language Lectu (2019) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
een in stock - I dinna think Boyd's wid appreciate the stink Le on page 15

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
n @SheepFanFaeEly Phone Chris Boyd for rug advice couple o pies (2020) search twitter
Boyd supports the Don's the day th(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Whun nighber Wullie Boyd wus pennin. on page 27

3 matches

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